Reject-a-mundo!

So, they did not avail themselves of “ILYAMY” after a mere three days, but that’s okay. I’ll try that one again later with a different story (and be ready for the whiplash that follows).

Undeterred, I did a little better market research and resubmitted ILYAMY to some new avenues (all those pros and semi-pros accepting the dreaded “simultaneous submissions”). These include my personal fave Baen’s Bar and the Grantville Gazette Univere Annex, as well as Buzzy Mag and a couple of anthologies which I’ve never sent stories in to. We’ll see how the shotgun approach works. If the story doesn’t find a home with them, I’ll go back to the one-magazine-at-a-time route and try for the traditional big names.

BTW, I really love the Duotrope site for market research. Very well done and much better than the scatterbrained and never updated free sites. It’s worth the small annual investment.

AAANNNNNDDD, I’ve completed the latest ASID revs and no proofs are ready to ship. Meeting tomorrow night with a local writer’s guild guy. We’ll see if we can network that into some eventual marketing resources.

Just who is this guy?

Thomas Allen Mays is the Improbable Author of "A Sword Into Darkness", "Demigod", "Lancers Into The Light", and numerous short stories here on the web, such as "Strategic Deployment", "Dreams for Sale -- Two Bits!", "The Rememberists", "Bumped", "Within This Horizon" and others.
When he's not writing, he works on the east coast, Somewhere Unspecified, doing Something For The Navy. He plans not to dwell on it here, but they'll probably have to resurrect Robert Mitchum or Gregory Peck to play him in a movie, because Tom Cruise just doesn't have the gravitas. What he prefers to do with his time, however, is play with his three beautiful kids his rambunctious mutt, or avoid working on the lawn.